The Cambridge Companion to British Theatre of the First World War

Herausgeber: Brooks, Helen E M; Hammond, Michael

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first comprehensive guide to British theatre's engagement with the First World War over the last century, providing accessible and lively coverage of theatre's role in the representation and remembrance of events, focusing on topics including regionality, politics, popular performance, Shakespeare, class, race and gender.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Theatre and Performance
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 444g
• ISBN-13: 9781108722766
• ISBN-10: 1108722768
• Artikelnr.: 67526749

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: British theatre and the first world war Helen E. M. Brooks; Part I. Mobilising for War: 1. Foreshadowing the war: future war and invasion plays, 1900
1914 Ailise Bulfin; 2. Mobilising the nation: the comic revue in wartime Robert Dean; Part II. Theatre During the War: 3. Challenging times: making theatre during the war Claire Cochrane; 4. Everyone's a playgoer now!: theatregoing and theatregoers 1914
1918 Viv Gardner; 5. Theatre in the war zone Emma Hanna; 6. The classics at war Ailsa Grant Ferguson; 7. War on the popular stage: 'spy' plays and the one act domestic comedy Maggie B. Gale; 8. Cinema and theatre in the great war Michael Hammond; 9. American invasions Philippa Burt; 10. European theatre on the British stage 1914
1918 Eva Krivanec; 11. Resistance and objection Anselm Heinrich; Part III: The Memory of War: 12. Reflecting on the war Rebecca D'Monté; 13. Re-imagining the war Helen E. M. Brooks; 14. Commemorating the war Rebecca Benzie; Chronology of events and productions; Further reading; Index.